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PALMIGIANO v. GARRAHY

No. 79-1021.

599 F.2d 17 (1979)

Nicholas A. PALMIGIANO et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. J. Joseph GARRAHY et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 6, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William G. Brody, Asst. Atty. Gen., Providence, R. I., with whom Dennis J. Roberts, II, Atty. Gen., and Maureen E. McKenna, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Providence, R. I., were on brief, for defendants-appellants.

Matthew L. Myers, Providence, R. I., with whom Alvin J. Bronstein, Washington, D. C., and Robert Mann, Providence, R. I., were on brief, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before CAMPBELL and BOWNES, Circuit Judges, DEVINE, District Judge.

BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

This case can best be described as a spin-off from a massive prison case which probed all aspects of the Adult Correctional Institutions of Rhode Island. Palmigiano v. Garrahy, 443 F.Supp. 956 (D.R.I. 1977). The District Court of Rhode Island found that the overall conditions of confinement at the maximum and medium security prisons violated the cruel and unusual punishment proscription of the eighth...

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